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| The future at your fingertips |
| It is time to put the good old mouse to rest touch-screen technology is here, says Giles Turnbull |
| There is a scene in the film Minority Report in which Tom Cruise stands in front of a vast Perspex-like screen housed in the police department’s Pre-Crime Unit. He gazes in earnest at the transparent surface, waving his hands across the tablet to swirl great chunks of text and moving ima... |
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| The power of words |
| Should the computer system that globally renowned physicist Stephen Hawking uses to communicate with the world ever fail, software engineer Arun Mehta
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| Riches of the sea |
| Virupaxa K. Banakar is a treasure hunter. This scientist from the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, may not have studied metallurgy in school b
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| Madmen in charge |
| Attempts to save mankind by smashing asteroids as they head towards Earth may do more harm than good, scientists believe.
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| Sun’s merry-go-round |
| On May 24, 1543, Nicholas Copernicus lay in bed, dying of brain haemorrhage. It is said that a copy of his book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
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| A bitter sweet problem |
| The global incidence of diabetes is increasing. It has already affected 2.8 per cent of the total population and this is expected to increase to 4.8 p
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